:eyecrazy: Went this morning with Tim St on my son's boat. We fished from Watch Hill Beach, off Napatree, Watch Hill and Sugar Reef. It was a cool day, but fish were around, at daybreak Watch Hill had Blues, and False Albacore, had a bluefish cutoff on my first cast. False Albacore were running around early off Watch Hill Beach, but stayed at least 1/2 mile offshore. The wind mostly was from the Northwest, and there was some chop. The water was fairly clean, not to much mung. Tim did well as he caught a few false albacore, had a few other good hits. I caught false albacore, and a couple of bluefish had several cutoffs besides. False albacore are still around in numbers, but after about nine they seem to scatter, and the pods got smaller. It was kind of hang around certain areas they would show up again. I even caught a false albacore on Sugar Reef, on my easy squid pattern. That was a first. Good luck this weekend. We didn't get up to even Misquamicut Beach. From what I could see there wasn't much action close to shore. The exception being Napatree near the wall, saw two boats hanging around there.;) Here is a picture, I hope of Tim today., a very good flyfisher.:D

juro

10-18-2002, 05:34 PM

Awesome report and picture! Great stuff from South County.

TimSt

10-18-2002, 08:06 PM

Art is only telling half the story--he did a fine job instilling the values of decency and generosity in his son, and that's what brought about today's great day.

The story is that I had to bail from a charter I set up with Capt Art's (Art Burton's son) Makobound Charters due to a death in the family. My group from work went and had a great time; I didn't.

Capt Art gave me a call a few weeks ago saying how disappointed he was that I didn't get to go out with my buddies, so he offered to take me out with him and his father--no charge, no strings. Every time we tried going out, the weather wouldn't let us, but Capt Art repeatedly reassured me that we'd get out there. I felt bad that he was going through all this trouble just to get me out, but he was persistent.

Though the Burton family probably doesn't realize it, today was one of the best days of fishing I've ever had. The fact that Capt Art was determined to get me out there no matter what, and the selflessness in devoting a precious off-day to a non-paying trip speaks volumes of his character.

It didn't hurt that we were catching albies in the middle of October either :)

Thanks guys!

Quentin

10-19-2002, 09:08 AM

Wow! Sounds like a great trip! Hope the fish move a little closer to shore this weekend.

Since there are still albies around, does that mean that there may also be a chance of seeing some bonito come through as the albies head south?

Q

JimW

10-19-2002, 07:42 PM

Art, Great report. I had hoped to make it down to RI Sunday but it's looking like a quick trip to B-bay and Falmouth is all I can squeeze in. Good luck to those that make the trip, wish I was going.

Penguin

10-19-2002, 08:04 PM

Art...
Great report and some dandy Human Relations 101!
'Sounds like the Captain is a "chip off the olde block"...
Well done and thanks for sharing the day!